Monster Shelf Cloud - 13th April

[Lightning Hunter]

Simply stunning, saw some lightning, but it gave no rain where I was:

[Paul Sherman]

Just 1 word Paul, Fantastic!

Love that first picture!

Paul S

[A.J]

lost for words!.......one word less than Paul!........

Wow!

[MP-R]

Awesome pictures! Great captures.

[Yeti]

Superb! Love the first one, ominous and dramatic.

[Noctilucid]

Brilliant, a great photo there of an amazing storm, that looks like something straight out of the Midwest USA.

[dogs32]

some photo...would love to have seen that...clouds from the USA

[Andy Bown]

Wow!

Was that the storm that you saw the Funnel Cloud in?

[Lightning Hunter]

Wow!

Was that the storm that you saw the Funnel Cloud in?

Thanks for the comments

Andy - no this was about 7hrs later, near sunset, a seperate storm.

[pottyprof]

WOW!!!!

I think that says it all!!

[Stuart]

who nice stormy pics

[Andy Bown]

Andy - no this was about 7hrs later, near sunset, a seperate storm.

Goodness, you had quite a day then !

[Kent Snow]

A truely awesome photograph. Many congrats!

[Sugar79]

was that taken in this country??

[Nick L]

Wow great pics!

[ANYWEATHER]

Amazing pictures! Wish i could of took that photo!

[shuggee]

Superb - what a sight!

[NL]

Top shelf..!! Well captured Paul, you seem to have an uncanny thing being in the right place

at the right time.

[Somerset Squall]

It looks so angry. Would have loved to be under that storm!!

[Nick F]

Great first pic LH.

Reminds of when we were outrunning a squall line in west central Texas last May which had a shelf cloud which stretched from the south horizon to the north horizon.

[Cookie]

immense! well done matey

[Paul Sherman]

Amazing pictures! Wish i could of took that photo!

Give it 2-3 weeks, and I have a sneaky suspicion you may just get some pics like that

[iceageian85]

Simply stunning, saw some lightning, but it gave no rain where I was:

Ello,

Quality picture.. but the what i find intreguing is the clearly visable curvature of the cloud just above the shelf prooving this to be a supercell, i got to ask you, by any chance did this baby spawn any tornadoes?

[Lightning Hunter]

Hi Iceagian,

Yes it did have a slight 'bow' to it, but that doesn't make it a supercell. The storm had developed before sunset, and the storm was becoming outflow dominant. The gust front surged out south-westwards, lifting up some stable air creating the smooth shelf as it rushed overhead.

It didn't even give any rain at my location, but there was a deluge just to the east and north as it was quite slow moving. I haven't heard any reports of any funnels or tornadoes and it certainly didn't produce anything whilst I was there, albeit late in it's life.

btw, the full story with more pics is now on my website here:

http://www.wildskies.co.uk/showerstorms/2008/13-04-08d.html

[tom_f123]

WOW! they are really stunning